RE: Living Donor Remote Workup

[Guest guest]

Billed to the requesting center (in fact, they should send you something w/all the billing instructions).

J. Aguiar

Mayo Clinic Arizona

From: TxFinancialCoordinators [mailto:TxFinancialCoordinators ] On Behalf Of cfegleySent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:08 PMTo: TxFinancialCoordinators Subject: Living Donor Remote Workup

Our transplant center from time to time will do remote workups for other centers for kidney donors. Are those charges to be written off to organ acquisiton or charged back to the remote center? I thought they were to be billed back to the remote center.Any help would be appreciated.FegleyTransplant Financial SpecialistKidney TransplantSt. Luke's Hospital of KC

[Guest guest]

HI

They are to be billed back to the

transplant center that ordered the workup for the live donor. Your center

should accept payment at 100% of Medicare just as you would expect other

centers to.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Bill

From: TxFinancialCoordinators [mailto:TxFinancialCoordinators ] On Behalf Of cfegley

Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

2008 3:08 PM

To: TxFinancialCoordinators

Subject:

Living Donor Remote Workup

Our transplant center from time to time will do remote

workups for

other centers for kidney donors. Are those charges to be written off to

organ acquisiton or charged back to the remote center? I thought they

were to be billed back to the remote center.

Any help would be appreciated.

Fegley

Transplant Financial Specialist

Kidney Transplant

St. Luke's Hospital

of KC

[Guest guest]

I have a standard letter that I send for

donor evals to be done offsite – based on letters I have received from

TFCs in the past. There are some parts of the donor eval that our donor team wants

to be sure to have done at our center – each transplant team can develop

that set of guidelines.

It has been a relatively easy process for

us to do testing here for other centers since we work so closely with our

billing/financial staff.

But, it is often been a difficult process when

I have requested testing done offsite – getting claims mailed to me,

receiving current W9s so that payments can be processed, etc. Some transplant

centers have been easy to set up billing with at the Medicare rate but I also actually

heard from one transplant center that I would have to work out a rate contract

with their hospital before they would set up any donor testing. As such, we

try to limit what is done offsite depending on how far away the donor lives.

When we can team with other transplant

centers that is great!

Daryl Battin,

LICSW

Financial

Coordinator/Social Worker

Lahey Clinic

Kidney Transplant

41 Mall Road, Burlington,

MA 01805

Ph:

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From: TxFinancialCoordinators [mailto:TxFinancialCoordinators ] On Behalf Of Vaughan

Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

2008 3:14 PM

To: TxFinancialCoordinators

Subject: RE:

Living Donor Remote Workup

HI

They are to be billed back to the transplant center that ordered

the workup for the live donor. Your center should accept payment at 100%

of Medicare just as you would expect other centers to.

Hope this helps,

Thanks,

Bill

From: TxFinancialCoordinators

[mailto:TxFinancialCoordinators ]

On Behalf Of cfegley

Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

2008 3:08 PM

To: TxFinancialCoordinators

Subject:

Living Donor Remote Workup

Our

transplant center from time to time will do remote workups for

other centers for kidney donors. Are those charges to be written off to

organ acquisiton or charged back to the remote center? I thought they

were to be billed back to the remote center.

Any help would be appreciated.

Fegley

Transplant Financial Specialist

Kidney Transplant

St. Luke's Hospital

of KC

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